By KRISTEN HAYS
& ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published on 9/17/2005
Houston — Yet another Hurricane Katrina “evacuee” has a home in Houston — the nation's first federal trial involving Merck & Co.'s withdrawn painkiller, Vioxx.
U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon of Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, who is overseeing hundreds of federal civil lawsuits related to Vioxx, has ruled the first one will proceed as scheduled on Nov. 28 in Houston rather than in its original venue. <snip>
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